ingredient

[ in-gree-dee-uhnt ]

/ ɪnˈgri di ənt /

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noun

something that enters as an element into a mixture: Flour, eggs, and sugar are the main ingredients in the cake.

a constituent element of anything; component: the ingredients of political success.

Nearby words

ingrate, ingratiate, ingratiating, ingratitude, ingravescent, ingredient, ingres, ingress, ingressive, ingrid, ingrowing

Origin of ingredient

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin ingredient- (stem of ingrediēns), present participle of ingredī to go or step into, commence, equivalent to in- in-² + -gredient- going; see gradient

SYNONYMS FOR ingredient

1 See element.

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ANTONYMS FOR ingredient

whole.

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Examples from the Web for ingredient

Even his signature instrument, Auto-Tune, has become as accepted an ingredient in hip-hop as the drum machine.
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Or what if an ingredient in your beer or cocktail machines has gone bad without knowing it?
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Truth is, the more immersed we are in our careers, the more important the ingredient in our social diet.
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But it lacked the one ingredient that has largely been absent from this World Cup: cold-blooded finishing in front of goal.
Germany Wins, World Cup Justice Is Served|Tunku Varadarajan|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Your favorite snacks, cosmetics, soaps, and more likely use it as an ingredient.
Our Taste for Cheap Palm Oil Is Killing Chimpanzees|Carrie Arnold|July 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are much esteemed as an ingredient of certain perfumes and for flavoring tobacco.
Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena|H. J. Mozans
Increase of one ingredient will not increase the desired product.
The Principles of Economics|Frank A. Fetter
This consciousness mingled an ingredient of asperity with their genuine pity for May.
Quisant|Anthony Hope
In the biographic spell, no ingredient is more magical than predisposition.
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Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
Familiar Quotations|John Bartlett

British Dictionary definitions for ingredient

ingredient

/ (ɪnˈɡriːdɪənt) /

noun

a component of a mixture, compound, etc, esp in cooking

Word Origin for ingredient

C15: from Latin ingrediēns going into, from ingredī to enter; see ingress

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